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Coda Form Tips & Tricks

Ways to customize form experiences in Coda.

Below are two tables linked via lookup columns: "Fruits and Veggies" and "Food Groups." A third table--"Food Orders" is set up to allow users to submit an order for specific fruits or veggies.

Fruits and Veggies

Name

Food Group

Apple

Orange

Banana

Carrot

Squash

Broccoli

There are no rows in this table

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Food Groups

Food Groups

Name

Examples

Fruits

Vegetables

There are no rows in this table

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In the "Food Orders" form, I've set up a filter on the "Specific Food" drop down so that it will only populate foods that match the set "Food Group" to help streamline the form and ensure users can quickly find the values that they're looking for without scrolling through irrelevant values.

Food Orders

Food Orders

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If you publish the form, you can use UTM parameters to pre-fill form values. The buttons below prepopulate a value for the "Food Group" field by taking you to the published form and adding UTM parameters to the hyperlink. If you click into their formulas, you'll see how that was setup, but

this guide⁠

walks through the process as well!

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Order Fruit

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Order Vegetables

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You can also create separate form views of the same "Food Order" table that have their own layout and questions. I've created two below that are specific to Internal and External Food Orders.

I've also created two controls: one for if it's an internal or external order and another for if it's a Fruit or Vegetable order. Those two controls then adjust the UTM parameters applied to the button to prefill the fields, effectively customizing the form experience for the user.

Order Type:

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Category Group:

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Select Order Type and Food Group

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Internal Food Orders